World History 2 Explores

The first European to sail around Africa's Cape of Good Hope.

• Bartolomeu Dias
• Pedro Alvarez Cabral
• Jacques Cartier
• Francisco Coronado

The first explorer to sail around the world and named the Pacific Ocean.

• Vasco da Gama
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Francisco Pizarro
• Marco Polo

The French explorer who named Canada.

• Amerigo Vespucci
• Samuel de Champlain
• Jacques Cartier
• Juan Ponce de Leon

A Spanish explorer who was the first to explorer the American Southwest.

• Bartolomeu Dias
• Vasco Nunez de Balboa
• Sir Francis Drake
• Francisco Coronado

An English explorer who explored northeastern North America and the Arctic Ocean.

• Henry Hudson
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Jacques Cartier
• Francisco Coronado

The first European to see the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean.

• Amerigo Vespucci
• Vasco Nunez de Balboa
• Francisco Pizarro
• Marco Polo

A Spanish conquistador who discovered the Inca Empire and conquered them.

• Vasco da Gama
• Pedro Alvarez Cabral
• Francisco Pizarro
• Juan Ponce de Leon

An Italian explorer and one of the first European to travel to China and meet Kublai Khan.

• Bartolomeu Dias
• Samuel de Champlain
• Sir Francis Drake
• Marco Polo

A Portuguese explorer who discovered a route from Portugal to the East.

• Vasco da Gama
• Vasco Nunez de Balboa
• Jacques Cartier
• Francisco Coronado

The first European to see Brazil.

• Henry Hudson
• Pedro Alvarez Cabral
• Francisco Pizarro
• Marco Polo